{"id":220204,"date":"2025-10-23T12:01:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T12:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/220204\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T12:01:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T12:01:13","slug":"the-way-i-like-a-bike-set-up-seems-to-translate-to-the-masses-8-things-we-learned-from-sam-shucksmith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/220204\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The way I like a bike set up seems to translate to the masses&#8221; \u2013 8 things we learned from Sam Shucksmith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Shucksmith is head of mountain bike design for Whyte Bikes and has been passionate about MTB racing since he was a teenager. <\/p>\n<p>We caught up with Sam for an episode of the MBUK Podcast to find out about his wealth of experience in the mountain bike world. <\/p>\n<p>From his early days racing downhill bikes to developing and testing new MTBs for Whyte, here are 8 things you may not know about Sam in his own words.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>1. He\u2019s got nearly 20 years of racing experience<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been racing since I was 15. I got into it through my brother, Phil, who was racing World Cups at the time. I raced downhill for eight years and then transitioned to enduro after knee surgery, which knocked my confidence a bit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt just seemed more fun \u2013 being able to spend a lot of time on your bike riding new venues, new tracks, new equipment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first enduro race I did, in 2011, I was wearing a skateboard lid and some high-ankle Five Ten flat boots, because enduro clothing didn\u2019t really exist.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you were a downhill rider, you just had a DH helmet and a BMX lid for dirt jumping and stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Shucksmith is head of mountain bike design for Whyte Bikes and has been passionate about MTB racing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-220204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}